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Between 2012 and 2013 the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office transferred some 20,000 colonial files from 37 territories to the National Archives in Kew. These ‘Migrated Archives’ had been repatriated to the UK between 1963 and 1994, but only in 2011 were they fully and publicly disclosed as the result of an English court hearing into claims of human rights violations by British authorities during the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya (1952–60). Yet the Migrated Archives contain many records related to the Pacific, including Fiji, Vanuatu (the New Hebrides), the Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu. These Pacific records can be assessed in relation to approaches to contested property, public availability, diplomatic sensitivity and the management of official information. They also provide potentially new sources for Pacific historians on the politics of decolonisation in the region and the synergies and contrasts the Pacific shares with other areas of the former British empire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pacific Research Archives (PRA) is one of three national collections held in the archives at the Australian National University (ANU). This paper describes the origins of and relationships among the three core archival collections: the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, the ANU University Archives and the Pacific Research Archives. The entire ANU Archives boasts over 20 kilometres of records, largely held in the ‘Acton Tunnel’, an underground car park redeveloped as a repository. Established in 2007, the Pacific Research Archives includes over 150 collections created by scholars, missionaries, colonial administrators, organisations and individuals who were working, or had interests, in the Pacific Islands in the politico-cultural regions of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. This paper traces the origins of the university’s role as a leader in Pacific studies, the context in which the Pacific Research Archives was created in 2007 and its current method of operation in a collaborative and digital world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Western Pacific Archives in their New Home [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In accounts of the Kanak (Melanesian) opposition to the recruitment of volunteers for the Great War in 1916–17 and of the war that followed in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18, the involvement of a district grand chef, Téâ Antoine Katélia, was the subject of conflicting testimonies. Drawing extensively upon archival materials dating from before, during and after the war, this paper examines the contested authority of a Kanak chief in the early-20th century and contributes to the local history of the Koné region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of the resources related to Pacific history and studies is presented including the collection of Spanish archival material from the Micronesia Area Research Center in Guam, the Micronesia Colelction from 1852-1923 at the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library in Honolulu, and the photos, videos and film fotages from tge Micronesia Seminar in Chuuk.

Lists Losuia District Administration files rescued and boxed at Losuia, Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands in March 2000. Project by Allan Darrah and Jay Crain to digitize the Trobriand corpus of ethnographic literature as a research tool; Role of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau in the records' long-term preservation.

Presents archival materials relating to the expeditions of philanthropist Richard Archbold to New Guinea between 1933 and 1964. Aims of the expeditions; Specimens acquired from the expeditions; Outline of the journals from several persons involved in the expedition.